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Just to bring more conversation to life...

what's your favorite bible verse? =)

and why- how does it speak to you.

Mine is Isaiah 9:2

"The people who have walked in darkness have seen a great light; those that have walked through the valley of the shadow of death, a great light has dawned."

No matter where you come from or what possible darkness you have faced, it will be you that God works though and shines the greatest light.

Aw man, there's too many for me to choose from! D:

Many of them are big chunks out of Matthew 13, where Jesus speaks in parables...

"A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seed fell on the path, and birds came and ate it up.
Some fell on rocky ground, where it had little soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep, and when the sun rose it was scorched, and it withered for lack of roots.

Some seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it.
But some seed fell on rich soil, and produced fruit, a hundred or sixty or thirtyfold.
Whoever has ears ought to hear."

. . . .
"Gross is the heart of this people, they will hardly hear with their ears, they have closed their eyes, lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and be converted, and I heal them.

But blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear.

Amen, I say to you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.

Hear then the parable of the sower:
The seed sown on the path is the one who hears the word of the kingdom without understanding it, and the evil one comes and steals away what was sown in his heart.

The seed sown on rocky ground is the one who hears the word and receives it at once with joy.
But he has no root and lasts only for a time. When some tribulation or persecution comes because of the word, he immediately falls away.

The seed sown among thorns is the one who hears the word, but then worldly anxiety and the lure of riches choke the word and it bears no fruit.

But the seed sown on rich soil is the one who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and yields a hundred or sixty or thirtyfold."

He proposed another parable to them. "The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field.
While everyone was asleep his enemy came and sowed weeds all through the wheat, and then went off.
When the crop grew and bore fruit, the weeds appeared as well.

The slaves of the householder came to him and said, 'Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? Where have the weeds come from?'
He answered, 'An enemy has done this.' His slaves said to him, 'Do you want us to go and pull them up?'
He replied, 'No, if you pull up the weeds you might uproot the wheat along with them. Let them grow together until harvest; then at harvest time I will say to the harvesters, "First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles for burning; but gather the wheat into my barn"'. "

. . . All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables. He spoke to them only in parables to fulfill what had been said through the prophet: "I will open my mouth in parables, I will announce what has been hidden from the beginning of the world." (Psalm 78:2)

. . . His disciples approached him and said, "Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field."
He said in reply, "He who sows good seed is the Son of Man, the field is the world, the good seed the children of the kingdom. The weeds are the children of the evil one, and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of times, and the harvesters are angels.

Just as weeds are collected and burned with fire, so will it be at the end of the age.
The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom all who cause others to sin and all who do evil.
They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth.
Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father.

Whoever has ears ought to hear."

Wise. Chilling. Wonderful.
How can anybody not be moved by those words? Even a non-emotional jerk like me can understand the beauty and truth in such a simple message!

But seriously, I love all of God's words ^^ (Also some Psalms, Deutoronomy, and Revelation)